Gentil Ferreira Viana (2 June 1935 – 23 February 2008) founded, among others separatist leaders, the

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Abbreviation, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wi ...

(MPLA). In 1974, he and

Joaquim Pinto de Andrade Joaquim Pinto de Andrade (July 22, 1926 – February 23, 2008) served as the first honorary President of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Chancellor of the Luanda Archdiocese, and as a member of the African Society of Cult ...

broke away from the MPLA and formed the Activa Revolt;Irving Kaplan and Allison Butler Herrick. ''Angola, a Country Study'', 1979. Page 126. the two men died on the same day in 2008.

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